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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights | Adam Winkler
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We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, “civil rights movements” in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations—like minorities and women—have had a civil rights movement of their own, and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a two-hundred-year battle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Bringing to resounding life the legendary lawyers and justices involved in the corporate rights movement—among them Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—Winkler’s tour de force exposes how the nation’s most powerful corporations gained our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a bulwark against the regulation of big business.
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With the Citizens United decision (which is even hinkier than I realized) as a touchstone, We The Corporations looks at the gradual increase in rights given to companies in the US by the Supreme Court (as said rights are not explicitly given by the Constitution). Interesting and informative, though admittedly a bit dry in places. The audio reader does a great job of keeping this one interesting.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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This starts much further back then I would have imagined even referencing ancient Rome multiple times
With some heavy leagalize, but easily followed - the result of actions laid out. The author does well at leaving himself out of the story. leading to straight telling of the story w/o much emotion. Giving an unbiased view at times I found myself agreeing to some of the rights corp had won making the book and the history & any argument much richer

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I have gotten out of this habit but going to be better at it to push myself to read more.
#weeklyforcast going for one each of new, old, not yet released, and audio
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (new release)
My #bookspin book Turtle Diary (old)
Anxious People (not yet released)
We the Corporations (audio)

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Kobe83

Nyt notable book 2018

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keithmalek
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Repetitive, long-winded, and boring.

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cykitan
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oh god this is depressing

Louise And that's just in chapter two! Sounds like you'd better fasten your seatbelt! 😳 6y
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